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[SoftNAS KB]: Fix to error: nfs-utils "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock "

[SoftNAS KB]: Fix to error: nfs-utils "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock "

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Last updated: Jan 16, 2020

Symptom

You are seeing an error in NFS stating:

nfs-utils "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock"

Resolution

This Error is because your Linux OS does not have a "helper" program for the NFS type.

See below for package names:

CentOS:

yum install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib

RHEL5/6/7:

yum install nfs-utils nfs-utils-lib

Ubuntu:

apt-get nfs-common

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